Why is there something instead of nothing? Or stated another
way, what caused the big bang? These have been questions of interest to me for
about 60 years, and so far, all the answers I have seen have been somewhat
unsatisfactory. I wanted the best scientific answer; and while some models give
mathematically elegant descriptions of events, they describe processes that are
unlikely to ever be verified. They are short on details about the cause of the
Big Bang, and have ignored both applicable laws of relativity and clues of
events in our universe that could have caused it.

Occam's
razor (try the simplest solution first) should be applied to developing a model
using relativity, quantum and mostly discovered parts and processes already
known. With only a few gaps to discover, the singularity acceleration model of
what caused the Big Bang is the closest hypothesis to being a viable theory of
cause of big bangs and how universes are formed.

The singularity that
formed our Big Bang has every feature one would expect to occur in a
supermassive black hole singularity that came from an earlier universe. There
is just one problem, and that is the matter of scale. If it were not for a
daunting size discrepancy of at least thirteen orders of magnitude between the
mass of the largest known black hole singularity and the mass of our universe,
the concept of black hole singularity-causing universe formation might not have
been considered impossible. However, this idea was generally dismissed without
serious study, even though black hole singularities would otherwise be considered
the perfect candidate as the cause of the Big Bang, the result of a
singularity phase transition from another universe.

To the best of my knowledge no one else has ever
published a process or model showing how the mass from the matter and energy in
a galaxy cluster or even a super cluster complex is adequate to make a
singularity massive enough to form a universe like ours. The singularity acceleration hypothesis uses only
items that exist in our universe, and are plausible to have existed in a prior universe,
and laws of contemporary physics to construct the model. Thus, this hypothesis presents the only mechanism to date
with a plausible explanation of how a supermassive black hole singularity that
formed in a single galaxy cluster complex in an older universe could have
caused the Big Bang.

Most of the
tenets of the Singularity Acceleration hypothesis are testable, probably more so than any other contemporary
hypothesis of what happened before the Big Bang, although some of these tests
may require technological advances.